Do you ever wonder what people who work in the library like to read. Well, it turns out our reading tastes here at Madill Library are extremely varied. Starting thisweekandforthenextfew weeks,wearegoingtofeature picks from our library staff.
This week the pick is The Invisible Husband of Frick Island by Colleen Oakley. What our staff member has to say about this book is: 'When I read a book I want it to take me away from my life and into someone else’s. I want to get to know them, feel what they feel and learn a little something I didn’t know before on the journey through the pages.'
This book starts in the modern age, our time with a reporter desperate to become a successful podcaster. His dream takes him to a remote place where people live a little different, kinda like when the city folk move here (Marshall County) and realize they can’t get pizza delivered any more, yet they enduplovingitanyway.Love has a way of changing your perspective on things. This story encompasses all kinds of love, loss and the sacrifices people are willing to make on the way to achieve their dreams. Now for a couple of new to our library books that you might be interested in reading. The first book is based on the true story of a Durant Oklahoma native.
Roger Lincoln Shinn is an esteemed professor of social ethics at prestigious New York institutions--Columbia University and Union Theological Seminary. But before he became a renowned academic, and known only to his wife, he had faced the unspeakable as a combat infantryman in the Second World War.
On a converted ocean liner en route to fight the Nazi army in Europe with the Ninth Armored Division, the proper young Shinn meets another officer, John William Hall, a rough-hewn Southern rifle champion rebelling against the family bloodline. Hall left the dark rage of the Oklahoma Dust Bowl for the vortex of world war, and the two captain's destinies intertwine at the ferocious Battle of the Bulge.
Two decades later, during the Vietnam War, Shinn reveals to stunned students his saga as a soldier and prisoner of war. And Hall's astonishing, controversial actions in the face of the enemy-and his troops.
This sweeping narrative pivots on family struggles, inspired women, social prejudice, battlefield courage, tragic miscalculations, and enduring love. Together these factors influence life and death-and the trajectory of two uncompromising soldiers, untested in war, who struggle to overcome tragic miscalculations and the brutality of humankind's darkest venture.
Based on true accounts, the novel will grip readers intrigued by vivid human stories formed from inside monumental occurrences. Rare Encounter by J.K. Hall Winter has come to North Carolina and, with it, a drop in crime. Freed from a heavy work schedule, Tempe Brennan is content to dote on her daughter Katy, finally returned to civilian life from the army.
But when mother and daughter meet at Tempe's place one night, they find a box on the back porch. Inside: a very fresh human eyeball. GPS coordinates etched into the eyeball lead to a Benedictine monastery where an equally gruesome discovery awaits.
Soon after, Tempe examines a mummified corpse in a state park, and her anxiety deepens. There seems to be no pattern to the subsequent killings uncovered, except thateachmimicsinsomeway a homicide that a younger Tempe had been called in to analyze.
Who or what is targeting her,andwhy?HelpingTempe search for answers is detective Erskine 'Skinny' Slidell, retired but still volunteering with the CMPD cold case unit--and still displaying his gallows humor.
Also pulled into the mystery: Andrew Ryan, Tempe's Montreal-based beau, now working as a private detective. Could this elaborately staged skein of mayhem be the prelude to a twist that is even more shocking?
Tempe is at a loss to establish the motive for what is going on and then her daughter disappears. Kathy Reichs’, Cold, Cold Bones is a novel of revenge, one in which revisiting the past may prove the only way to unravel the present.